Nothing Burger. While flying over the US and our missile sites...pictures taken were transmitted in real-time to the ChiComs.
Damage was done long before we shot it down.
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and what they missed, they can obtain from the farmland purchased next to our bases...
Chinese satellites gather even more intel. The real issue is the potential of pathogen or EMP delivery in the future.
Now that you brought that up, perhaps there was some sort of a two-way pass of info from one to the other?
There was a reported Chinese spy balloon over central/South America. Aren’t there Chinese military in South America?
You’re right.
It was already going over the Atlantic Ocean, meaning the mission was over land was accomplished.